NO REST FOR THE X

Beverly Flanigan flanigan at OHIO.EDU
Tue May 23 14:51:57 UTC 2006


And I really like Neil Crawford's "no rest for the righteous."  If that
hasn't shown up on Google yet, it should!

At 11:25 PM 5/21/2006, you wrote:
>looks like this has become a snowclone.  in the first hundred
>webhits, i get X =
>
>Clinton-obsessed, brave, woody, query, sleepless, productive,
>victorious, dead, waking, liver, victors, innocent, Talking Heads,
>wayfarer, workers, cookie-maker, retiree, professors, creepy,
>mentally ill, boys aboard Ericsson
>
>"query" is especially nice, given the rhyme to "weary".  and
>"innocent", the opposite of "wicked".
>
>arnold
>
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